Notre Dame defends the belt, 31–10, on the road at Pittsburgh.
AP poll, week 11: Notre Dame No. 5 at Pittsburgh unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Notre Dame came in 14 days into reign #154, which began with a win over USC, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Notre Dame went on to defend it 5 more times before Purdue took it on September 28, 1974, 336 days after the reign began.
For Pittsburgh this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Notre Dame led the belt series 1–0; all-time Notre Dame leads 2–0.
About this game
Notre Dame visited Pittsburgh on November 10, 1973, in week 11 of the regular season. Pittsburgh won 31-10. Notre Dame was the belt holder entering the game and retained the belt with the victory.
Written by Claude, strictly from this site’s own record of the game — the score and what it meant for the belt. CFBD doesn’t have a box score for games this old, so nothing here is invented beyond what’s verifiably on file.
Sources Game record: College Football Data (id 44600) · This game in the downloadable dataset